A. de Bonis - The Gardens of the French Academy, Villa Medici - image-1

Lot 869 Dα

A. de Bonis - The Gardens of the French Academy, Villa Medici

Auction 1161 - overview Cologne
07.12.2020, 17:00 - Photography
Estimate: 600 € - 800 €
Result: 688 € (incl. premium)

A. de Bonis

The Gardens of the French Academy, Villa Medici
1855 - 1860

Albumenized salt print. 29.3 x 25.3 cm. Blind-stamped monogram lower left and lower right. Titled and numbered '12' in pencil on the verso.

The members of the Scuola Romana di Fotografia were in lively exchange with those artists who, as winners of the Prix de Rome, received a scholarship for a stay of several years at the French Academy, which was housed in the Villa Medici, not far from the Caffè Greco. The print presented here comes from the estate of the painter and photographer Edmond Lebel (1834 - 1908), who stayed in Rome in the 1860s.